"There's a rule, I think. You get what……" — Alison Lurie
"There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too."
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11 Quotes by Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie has 11 quotes on this site.
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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and…
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the…
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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
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Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
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When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the…
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Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should…
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what…
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet,…
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We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and…
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More Choice Quotes
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
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What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the…
— Michele Bachmann
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